I’m at Social Media Consensus, a gathering of Web 2.0, Silicon Valley and nonprofit folks at the Socialtext offices in Palo Alto, Calif., talking about social media and the impact of the Internet on society.
We’re going through workshop exercises designed by two social media execs at Microsoft UK. Those on hand include Stowe Boyd, Tom Foremski, Julia French, Erik Langner, Ross Mayfield, Sara Olsen, John Merrels, Britt Bravo, Sam Perry, Vinnie Lauria, Chez Pim and Eszther Hargittai.
Later:
Best quote from today: Bronwyn Kunhardt of Microsoft UK, who convened us today: "The social media space is a gold mine of impact."
Best discovery: Change.org, a very cool site for global political action that launched 2 months ago, says Britt.
I’m booked solid today, but Liz Henry did a great job live-blogging the session. Excerpt:
What I’m noticing here is that the sites we’re talking about, other
than change.org, are not social networks, and we want them to be. We
all in this room seem to believe that social networks are inviting,
welcoming, intuitive, and powerful. …
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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